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Cranberry Lake, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Clifton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12927. It lies near Matilda Island. The Survey maps it on the Cranberry Lake quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,489 feet above sea level.

Cranberry Lake within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1919 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cranberry Lake, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Cranberry Lake, surveyed 1919

Compare 1919 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Cranberry Lake fell from 200 to 174 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010200
2020174-26 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersJOE INDIAN ISLAND FIRE
16 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSITE 19 FIRE
16 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 August 1997Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Cranberry Lake: 14 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dillon Pond ProspectIron, FeldsparProspect
Brandy Brook AnomalyIronOccurrence1944
Brandy Brook Northwest OccurrenceIronOccurrence1944
Brandy Brook Southeast OccurrenceIronOccurrence1944
Deerlick Rapids OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Deerlick Rapids ProspectIronOccurrence1945
Fern AnomalyIronOccurrence1945
Hardwood Mill OccurrenceIronOccurrence1941
Jarvis Bridge ExtensionIronOccurrence1942
Jarvis Bridge ExtensionIronOccurrence1942

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cranberry Lake in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$100,000Widespread trees and powerlines down from Wanakena to Tupper Lake along Route 3. Some structures, including camps were heavily damaged.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$20,000Numerous trees down along Route 3 and Cranberry Lake.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$15,000More than a dozen trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$10,000Trees down along Mill Street near Silver Lake.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$10,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$5,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$5,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$2,000A few trees down on Mill street.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$1,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCranberry Lake$1,000no account filed
July 2012HailCranberry Lake-Quarter size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cook Corners2.9 miles21
Brandy Brook3.6 miles21
Shurtleff5.4 miles15
Wanakena7.6 miles21
Newton Falls8.1 miles21
Sevey8.2 miles15
Janacks Landing Shelter8.2 miles21
Newbridge8.6 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cranberry LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5181895The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976196. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.